[citation][nom]smlong426[/nom]I thought the demo was pretty good. But, I'm a bit disappointed that Carmack's mobile offerings seem to be limited to iOS. Considering Winphone7 and Android platforms will be running comparable hardware and Android has a comparable (recent) user base to that of iOS, it only makes sense to offer this on other platforms as well. If the resulting games were good, I would buy them for my Android device. Isn't the whole point of this to sell it and make money?It's one thing for game consoles to have exclusivity. The game console owners pay development companies for that exclusivity, or own the game studio and can control it. As far as I know, Apple hasn't done this. So, exclusivity appears to be arbitrary. Maybe it is the time vested? I dunno ..[/citation]
Carmack has been making games for the iPhone for a couple of years now. Android is a bit newer, and Windows Phone 7 isn't even out yet. I don't know what developer nightmares you want to create for a game ON A PHONE...but you're really wasting your breath.
Another thing is that Android doesn't have enough platform control to guarantee the game would play on all of its phones. iPhone is more like a console and Android more like Windows. Nobody's going to want to spend all that extra time making up for all the possible hardware variants with the Android platform.